Thursday, July 29, 2021
S.P.A.V TIMES | SHUBHAM | SAHITHI | SARVESH
SPAV TIMES
(A post covid newspaper)
The spav times describes the post covid situation of the world in its content and shows the revival of humanity in the most beautiful and interactive as well as an interesting way.
The covid pandemic has taught us the importance of the little things in our life and has made us self-aware of the situation we all are going through.
In the articles we have tried to show how humanity has again started their daily journey after passing through an excruciating time and has restarted with a new hope and joy, although following the valuable lesson covid has taught us.
Various articles show the importance of simple architecture elements which we often neglected and now have come to our aid.
TECHNOLOGY AND MODULAR ARCHITECTURE-
The development in the production of vaccines and various mobile structures used as quarantine facilities or vaccine facilities which explains us the speed and the development of technology not only in terms of science but also in terms of architecture.
MASK-
Some of the architecture shows what the new normal is now and what was once considered as not important has seens i place taken in even the slightest of places. Like for example the simple mask which was never taken any seriously has found its way to each and everything in our daily life and is the new normal for protecting not only ourselves but also others.
WORK FROM HOME-
Work from home which was considered as a luxury has become a necessity and maybe the new way of worklife.
However comfortable it might be to stay in the luxury of our house, it has been observed that it might be difficult sometimes but an effective way most of the time.
SOCIAL DISTANCING IN PUBLIC-
Social distancing has become a new way of staying safe even when we are meeting people or going out in order to protect ourselves.
This can be seen in the markets and has proved to be efficient as well a pain.
We feel that the new normal of the market has changed the way people used to look at the market. It has an optimistic as well as pessimistic response. “We feel thar market experience won't be the same now”
A modern bubble-
The modern bubble refers to the protection which people might use for the new normal gathering of people.
However safe it might look, it has truly broken our belief of a gathering and showed us what all we are going to miss just because of the pandemic and maybe we might appreciate how beautiful our life is and how everything was when we were not having any sort of restriction which we have to face now.
Thus to sum it up, the post pandemic scenario of humanity might be a little different than what we imagined but, however it may look like , we are going to overcome all of this and who knows we might move back again to the normal which was the real normal!
Monday, July 19, 2021
COVID-19 - A Seasonal Phenomenon | Mohit | Rayes | Namitha
COVID-19 - A Seasonal Phenomenon
Introduction
The prophetic warning by the Nobel Laureate Joshua Lederberg that “the microbe that felled one child in a distant continent can reach yours today and seed a global pandemic tomorrow” has once again proved its relevance with the emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as the latest pandemic that is affecting human health and economy across the world.
We are facing a global health crisis unlike any in the 75-year history of the United Nations — one that is killing people, spreading human suffering, and upending people’s lives. But this is much more than a health crisis. It is a human, economic and social crisis. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which has been characterized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), is attacking societies at their core.
The recent Covid-19 pandemic has had significant psychological and social effects on the population. Research has highlighted the impact on psychological well-being of the most exposed groups, including children, college students, and health workers, who are more likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, and other symptoms of distress. The social distance and the security measures have affected the relationship among people and their perception of empathy toward others.
Research references
Studies show that SARS-CoV-2 ,the virus that causes COVID-19 may behave like many other coronaviruses that circulate more widely in fall and winter.
To find out if that could be true, researchers analyzed COVID-19 data including cases, death rates, recoveries, testing rates and hospitalizations from 221 countries. The investigators found a strong association with temperature and latitude.
One may conclude that the disease may be seasonal, like the flu. This may become relevant after the vaccine controls these first waves of COVID-19.This concept is supported by the fact that even after the year round effort by mankind to suppress the virus and to find its vaccine, new variants seem to be coming into picture at almost the same time of the year.
[SOURCE: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, news release, Jan. 27, 2021].
Revival of Mankind in Seasonal Pandemics
Taking into consideration the current scenarios and studies, the theory that might arise in the future years is that “ Pandemic scenarios such as Covid-19 or similar ones may become a frequently occurring seasonal phenomenon , but mankind and architecture will learn to evolve,adapt and survive in these catastrophic situations.
Architecture can turn out to be an ever evolving scenario where it has to cater two contrasting scenarios-To the season of pandemic and To the Non-pandemic times.
It answers the basic needs of people and manifests the characters of society. It connects our consciousness to the reality settings that interplays with the presence and the transience. The image of it suggests daily matters that evidence the passage of time. It is the background of our narratives of life. To most extent, practising architecture is a journey of self-recognition.
Architecture is inhabited: sequences of events, use, activities, incidents are always superimposed on those fixed spatial sequences. These are the programmatic sequences that suggest secret maps and impossible fictions, rambling collections of events all strung along a collection of spaces, frame after frame room after room, episode after episode.’
[Source:Tschumi (2012), P.61]
Architecture might need to amplify the current conditions of the neighbourhoods to address interacting social activities when there is no pandemic and restrict them whenever a new pandemic arises.
Interpretation of poster
The poster explores a narrative technique, parallel narrative, into spatial design theory. It transforms the background of daily matters: incidents, encounters, and the transiences that define our memories and identities as the foreground to reveal the notion of presence and self-awareness when a person is forced to isolate themselves within a closed environment .
The poster also becomes a reflection of the normal times[non-pandemic times] showcasing different aspects of the place with events, movement, the transience and building grid etc., which the data are superimposed into a secret map that is distinct from the visual settings but presents our perception of the space.
These cyphers are then translated into volumetric settings to amplify the existing events and spatial social interactions.
This contrast in spatial design and architecture helps to support the dwindling extremes of human behaviour and psychological needs. On one hand the architecture helps to sustain the peace of mind during isolation,on the other,it also helps to amplify the social interactions and stand back in a minimalist nature.Hence we can expect a redefinition of proxemics theory. [ Edward T Hall].
Conclusion
There can be an urban movement yet contributed by a series of discontinuous structures with a focal view of the factions of the very tiny or invisible elements within spaces. The poster hence reflects the philosophical aspect of architectural changes that might occur in the near future. Indeed, if the nature of space is interpretation, architecture shall follow fiction.
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